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I am considering purchasing a new battery charger which will include direct computer control and logging capabilities. Has anyone had experience with such a charger and does it seem to be worth the additional cost over a straight non-logging charger? Merv

Merv,
will you be charging lipos or just nimh/nicad? If you are only planning on chragng NIMH/NICAD than I have a duratrax ICE charger that I'm looking to sell for about $50.00 it has graphing and logging on their. Another great overall charge is the sky cahrger from hobbypartz (hobbycity also has one that is very similiar): http://www.hobbypartz.com/skychb6chdup.html This will charge lipo batteries as well and has output logging to a computer. A computer charger is definatley the way to go, they are very accurate have built in balancers for lipo and generally take up less space than old school analog chargers.

Yes, I would like to handle Lipos with teh same unit. It would be great if it could set the voltage at 3.8V/cell for optimum storage as well.
Ahsan, It looks like this thread should be under the power systems heading. Can it be moved?

Sounds good Merv, it has been moved. That charger that I sent a link to well work for you, it has the ability to set the lipos to charge mode. Here is the link again: www.hobbypartz.com/skychb6chdup.html
NOTE: Merv you have been added as an editor and can now moderate the forums/edit post or even move them as well

Thanks Ahsan